Verse 8

If we have food and clothing, we will be content with these.

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Referenced Verses

  • Matt 6:11 : 11 Give us today our daily bread.
  • Gen 28:20 : 20 Then Jacob made a vow, saying, 'If God will be with me and watch over me on this journey I am taking, and give me food to eat and clothes to wear,
  • Gen 48:15 : 15 Then he blessed Joseph and said, 'The God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked faithfully, the God who has been my shepherd all my life to this day,'
  • Deut 2:7 : 7 The LORD your God has blessed you in all the work of your hands. He has watched over your journey through this vast wilderness. These forty years the LORD your God has been with you, and you have lacked nothing.
  • Deut 8:3-4 : 3 He humbled you and allowed you to hunger, then fed you with manna, which neither you nor your fathers knew, to teach you that man does not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord. 4 Your clothing did not wear out, nor did your feet swell during these forty years.
  • Prov 27:23-27 : 23 Know well the condition of your flocks, and give attention to your herds. 24 For riches do not last forever, nor does a crown endure to all generations. 25 When the hay is removed, and new growth appears, and the herbs of the mountains are gathered, 26 the lambs will provide you with clothing, and the goats with the price of a field. 27 There will be enough goats’ milk for your food, for the food of your household, and for the maintenance of your servant girls.
  • Prov 30:8-9 : 8 Keep falsehood and lies far from me; give me neither poverty nor riches, but give me only my daily bread. 9 Otherwise, I may have too much and disown you and say, 'Who is the Lord?' Or I may become poor and steal, and so dishonor the name of my God.
  • Eccl 2:24-26 : 24 There is nothing better for a person than to eat and drink and find enjoyment in their work. This too, I realized, is from the hand of God. 25 For who can eat or who can enjoy life apart from Him? 26 To the person who pleases Him, God gives wisdom, knowledge, and joy, but to the sinner, He gives the task of gathering and storing wealth to hand it over to the one who pleases God. This too is meaningless, a chasing after the wind.
  • Eccl 3:12-13 : 12 I know that there is nothing better for people than to rejoice and to do good while they live. 13 And also that every person should eat, drink, and find satisfaction in all their toil—this is the gift of God.
  • Matt 6:25-33 : 25 Therefore, I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink, or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? 26 Look at the birds of the sky: they do not sow, they do not reap, and they do not store away in barns. Yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they are? 27 Who among you, by worrying, can add a single cubit to their lifespan? 28 Why do you worry about clothing? Observe the lilies of the field and how they grow. They do not toil or spin. 29 Yet I tell you that not even Solomon, in all his glory, was clothed like one of these. 30 If God so dresses the grass of the field, which is here today and thrown into the oven tomorrow, will He not much more clothe you—O you of little faith? 31 So do not worry, saying, 'What will we eat?' or 'What will we drink?' or 'What will we wear?' 32 For the Gentiles eagerly seek all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. 33 But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.
  • Heb 13:5-6 : 5 Let your character be free from the love of money, being content with what you have, for He has said, 'I will never leave you nor forsake you.' 6 So we can confidently say: 'The Lord is my helper; I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?'